Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan the Metropolitan Opera Co., while enjoying a boom season, passed the hat for $300,000 "to keep the institution going." Reasons: the Met's profitable out-of-town tours had been curtailed by the war; there was a $145,000 tax bill on the Opera House. The Met's taxes, though rescinded by a recent act of the New York Legislature (TIME, May 10) may not actually be erased until October...
Known as the M-4 (the standard tin hat for ground troops is the M-I), the steel-and-leather skull cap weighs but two pounds, compares in looks and comfort with the familiar football helmet...
...Then. Before he enlisted in 1939, Henry Worsley, now 31, was a felt finisher in a hat factory. He was one of the little men so often called "the backbone of England." Last week, just before he left to rejoin his outfit, he said that the one thing he expected of the postwar world was his job in the hat factory...
...into a family of twelve children on Manhattan's crowded Pitt Street, he began his theatrical career of necessity at the age of seven, after his father died. George organized the Pee-Wee Quartet, featuring himself and a six-year-old basso. The four took turns passing the hat in saloons and backyards...
...father (Don Ameche) cannot bear to go back to his drugstore in a small Iowa town. He is scarcely able to endure the attempts of his wife (Frances Dee) to comfort him. But one Sunday morning the ghost of his grandfather (Harry Carey) materializes, wearing his G.A.R. hat. He takes the father on a leisurely saunter through the Sabbath silence of the town, and through his memories...